Device for restoring facial symmetry



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Devic e'for Restoring Facial Symmetry.

No. 237,948. Patented Feb. 22,1881.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

FANN Y O. BATGHELLER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

DEVICE FOR RESTORING FACIAL SYMMETRY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 237,948, dated February22, 1881.

Application filed October 8, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FANNY G. BATCHELLER, of Boston, in-the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new anduseful Device for Restoring Facial Symmetry, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists of a spring or springs which are so made that theymay be readily.

attached to or connected with the teeth. The spring part or parts pressagainst the misshapen portion of the face or lips, and have a tendencyto restore them to the proper symmetrical shape.

The device is to be used by persons whose face's have from any cause,either natural or artificial, become misshapen.

The device which I have adopted for an illustration of my invention isespecially adapted for restoring the mouth-lines to their properposition.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of myinvention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a viewshowing the same in use.

Let A B represent the two prongs of a spring, united at O, the end 0 0being so curved as to fit about and between the teeth; or, in somecases, it may be attached to a sin- (No model.) 7

gle tooth. If one angle alone of the mouth is out of place, then but asingle one of my devices need be used; but if both angles are drawn downor out of place, then two should be used.

It is obvious that the form and size of my device must be changed tosuit each individual case.

The use of my device for restoring the angles of the month isillustrated in Fig. 3, the prongs A B being so bent and adjusted thatthey will press in the direction to which it is desired to move thelips, the leading idea of my invention being to interpose between theteeth, using the teeth as a buttress, a spring, the resilience of whichshall act, through a proper-shaped part, to press the misshapen featureto its normal symmetry.

I claim as my inventionln'a device for restoring facial symmetry, thecombination of the spring A B with the holding device 0 0, adapted tograsp the teeth or be secured thereon, operating substantially asdescribed, and for the purpose set forth.

FANNY (J. BATGHELLER. Witnesses:

FRANK G. PARKER, JOSIAH W. HUBBARD.

